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00:00 Israeli army tanks move towards the center of Khan Yunis city after a night of artillery
00:06 shelling around Gaza.
00:10 Zelensky tells G7 leaders that Russia is hoping Western support for Ukraine will collapse
00:15 in the next year.
00:20 As the planet warms up, scientists worry about tipping points, which they say could cause
00:25 a mini ice age in Europe.
00:32 Palestinian children pulling their belongings from the rubble in the devastated city of
00:37 Khan Yunis, just 8 kilometers from Gaza's border crossing with Egypt.
00:43 Israeli forces continue to carpet bomb the besieged enclave.
00:47 They claim they are fighting Hamas fighters and senior officials.
01:08 Gaza's health ministry says more than 16,200 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have
01:13 been killed in Israeli bombardments.
01:17 The Kamal Adwan hospital, the last one serving the north, has stopped operating due to lack
01:21 of fuel.
01:24 The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says Palestinians are living in utter terror.
01:30 The IDF says it has struck approximately 250 targets on the Gaza Strip over the past 24
01:38 hours.
01:41 Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and free the 138 hostages still held.
01:48 "As the IDF expands its operations to dismantle Hamas in Gaza, we have not lost sight, not
01:58 for one moment, of our critical mission to rescue our hostages, to do everything in our
02:05 power to bring our hostages home."
02:07 Meanwhile, Israel's military has released these pictures of what they are claiming to
02:12 be the largest weapons cache found thus far in their ground offensive.
02:21 One week ahead of a crucial meeting of European heads of state and government, divisions over
02:25 the Israel-Hamas conflict are once again coming to the fore.
02:30 The polarization of views on events in the Middle East is becoming so big that leaders
02:34 representing the bloc are having to think twice about their words.
02:39 Earlier this week, members of an audience in front of the EU's foreign affairs chief
02:42 Joseph Bure left the room during an NGO event after he said that Israel was creating carnage
02:48 in the Gaza Strip.
02:50 "What we are witnessing in Gaza is another carnage.
02:55 How many victims, we don`t know.
02:56 Nobody knows.
02:58 Someone estimates it`s about 15,000, but I`m afraid that below the rubbles of the houses
03:03 destroyed, it must be many more with a high number of children.
03:11 So - sorry?
03:14 People are leaving the room.
03:15 People are leaving the room?
03:16 Yes.
03:17 Why?
03:18 Maybe I said something convenient.
03:25 One conservative MEP from the center right EPP group says that Bure is biased, following
03:30 the political agenda of the socialist government in Spain.
03:34 He adds that the foreign affairs chief is going too far when accusing Israel of massacre.
03:38 In his opinion, the Jewish state respects international law.
03:45 We have to wait for the European Council to see what is the position of the different
03:48 member states and if we can arrive to a common position.
03:51 That will be the ideal.
03:52 But in the meantime, there are different opinions.
03:55 That is what the high representatives should reflect, not only one side of the story.
04:01 Tensions among EU leaders became visible in November when the Belgian and Spanish prime
04:06 ministers visited the region and both criticized Israel for the suffering of Palestinians.
04:12 While both Belgium and Spain have a traditionally more pro-Palestinian approach, Germany and
04:16 Hungary are among the most pro-Israeli countries in the EU.
04:22 Everyone in the EU agrees that civilian casualties should be avoided in Gaza.
04:31 This is something that is clearly mentioned among all capitals.
04:34 However, where we see divisions among member states is Israel's right to self-defense.
04:39 Some of the EU member states are taking this argument very seriously and are supporting
04:43 Israel in this regard.
04:44 But we see other EU member states that actually try to alleviate this right of self-defense
04:52 by arguing that there should be proportionality and that the response of Israel is not proportional
04:58 at all.
04:59 The official EU position on the conflict is to stand in solidarity with Israel and support
05:04 its right to self-defense, but in accordance with international humanitarian law.
05:16 Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has told G7 leaders that Russia is ramping up
05:21 pressures on the front lines and hopes Western support for Kyiv will soon collapse.
05:31 Putin plans to simulate re-election for a new presidential term and to quell growing
05:38 Russian dissatisfaction with the war results.
05:42 He has significantly increased pressure on
06:03 the Russian side.
06:13 As Russia intensifies its attacks in Ukraine's east, the White House is asking for another
06:17 99 billion euros, but Republicans say they are growing tired of funding war efforts.
06:26 Braced for the snow and Russian bullets, these Ukrainian soldiers clad in winter camouflage
06:32 are participating in war games in the northern Chernihiv region.
06:38 They are learning how to identify and repel enemy saboteurs.
06:41 "I think that for every person, a healthy, normal person, if he is worried or afraid
06:54 of something, he should come and practice all these exercises.
06:59 It will make him stronger."
07:01 More than a million Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are currently fighting in eastern
07:06 Ukraine.
07:07 In order to combat the freezing temperatures, a Dutch charity has donated purpose-made military
07:12 kits to help defending troops survive.
07:35 Average temperatures in Kiev range from minus 4.8 degrees Celsius to two degrees between
07:40 December and March.
07:42 While many Ukrainians have returned to liberated pockets of the country, they are now racing
07:47 against the clock to rebuild their homes before winter really sets in.
07:58 Our planet is at risk from a series of dangerous tipping points, according to a new scientific
08:04 report released today.
08:05 That means the kinds of changes that could happen in just a couple of years and have
08:09 a massive impact on humanity.
08:11 I spoke to the report author, Professor Tim Lenton.
08:15 "So our global tipping points report shows that we're already at risk of tipping five
08:21 damaging system tipping points, the loss of a couple of major ice sheets, disruption of
08:27 the circulation of the North Atlantic, affecting the climate in Europe where we are, as well
08:32 as losing large areas of permafrost that add to global warming and triggering the dieback
08:37 of coral reefs that half a billion people depend on for their livelihoods."
08:42 The tipping points that may be passed don't just have implications for places like coral
08:47 reefs or tropical forests.
08:49 Also, the kinds of changes he's talking about in the Atlantic could have major impacts for
08:55 Europeans.
08:56 "As a British and European citizen, I'm most concerned about a tipping point in what's
09:01 called the subpolar gyre of the North Atlantic.
09:04 The last time this tipped, it gave us the little ice age in Europe.
09:08 We're not adapted for a sudden shift to a much more seasonal climate that would have
09:12 much colder, snowier winters, as well as hotter summers, and reduce the growing season for
09:18 major crops by a couple of months, as well as major disruption to water supplies."
09:23 A key takeaway is that it's not just every degree of warming that counts, it's every
09:27 0.1 degree of warming that counts when it comes to these tipping points.
09:31 The message the scientists hope will be getting through to delegates here.
09:35 Jeremy Wilkes at COP28 in Dubai for Euronews.
09:41 Kilometres of barbed wire dividing what was once an open land border.
09:45 Similar fences have been erected on the boundaries of Austria, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia amid
09:50 heightening security concerns over the flow of illegal migrants.
09:54 Meanwhile Slovenia's former Prime Minister Janis Janša has called Europeans to "arm themselves"
10:01 but intellectuals have accused the conservative politician of xenophobia.
10:04 "That statement is scandalous.
10:07 He says it's like a spiritual statement.
10:10 It's a chivia.
10:12 Arm yourselves, but legally.
10:14 What does it mean legally?
10:15 It's all the same.
10:16 If you arm yourself, it's all the same whether it's legal or illegal."
10:21 Ljubljana has recorded three times the number of illegal border crossings this year compared
10:26 to last year.
10:27 In an interview with Euronews Serbia, Janša defended his anti-immigration views and urged
10:32 Slovenians to take a stand.
10:35 "Actually this was not a statement as a reaction after the war or this terrorist attack in
10:44 Ukraine.
10:45 It was a statement addressing the whole situation which we are facing and the current security
10:52 situation in Slovenia and our abilities to defend ourselves as a country."
10:59 According to Europe's border agency Frontex, this migratory route which crosses Bosnia,
11:04 Croatia, Slovenia and Italy is particularly popular among Syrian and Afghan refugees.
11:10 "It has an effect on the lives of people who are here.
11:16 When you call someone and say I'm looking for a place for my friend from Syria and everyone
11:26 is looking at terrorists, terrorists, terrorists, this person has no chance of getting a place."
11:35 Italy established controls at its border with Slovenia last October, as a consequence Ljubljana
11:40 reinforced its boundary with Croatia.
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